2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet.h b/net/irda/irnet/irnet.h
index b001c361ad30..4300df35d37d 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet.h
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet.h
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>        /* isspace() */
+#include <linux/string.h>       /* skip_spaces() */
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 
diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
index 7dea882dbb75..156020d138b5 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
@@ -76,9 +76,8 @@ irnet_ctrl_write(irnet_socket *	ap,
       /* Look at the next command */
       start = next;
 
-      /* Scrap whitespaces before the command */
-      while(isspace(*start))
-        start++;
+        /* Scrap whitespaces before the command */
+        start = skip_spaces(start);
 
       /* ',' is our command separator */
       next = strchr(start, ',');
@@ -133,8 +132,7 @@ irnet_ctrl_write(irnet_socket *	ap,
               char *    endp;
 
               /* Scrap whitespaces before the command */
-              while(isspace(*begp))
-                begp++;
+              begp = skip_spaces(begp);
 
               /* Convert argument to a number (last arg is the base) */
               addr = simple_strtoul(begp, &endp, 16);